At the entry-level, professionals must bring a combination of hard and soft skills to the table. A machine learning engineer job description will often demand the following:
- Mathematical aptitude
- Python
- Java
- C++
- Knowledge of statistics
- Knowledge of probability
- System design
- Data modelling
Entry-level machine learning jobs typically involve developing applications that reduce manual labour and automate a process, working with diverse data sets, developing models and algorithms, and testing model quality.
Some top industries that offer machine learning engineer jobs in India:
- Healthcare – Using data to assess patient condition in real time, analysing data to detect anomalies
- Financial Services – Machine learning job opportunities in the field focus on extracting insights from data, preventing fraud, and identifying investment opportunities
- Transportation – Analysing data to identify trends, predicting potential problems
- Retail – Using data to personalise the shopping experience, pushing relevant discounts, offering relevant product recommendations in real time